Two months after that gathering, at Kushina's home.
"Set an ambush for him. Listen to me, you can't snatch this card!"
"It was because I listened to you earlier that I lost who knew how many rounds."
Hearing the contemptuous disdain in her voice, a certain fox in the sealing space became anxious. "I've lived for over a thousand years. What haven't I seen? How could I possibly lie to you?"
Kushina complained helplessly, "I never said you were lying, but your skills really are terrible!"
Terrible... rible... ble...
It was as if echoes reverberated through its mind, and a certain fox shut down in grievance.
Outside.
Seeing the crimson tentacles around Kushina suddenly retract, Minato asked worriedly, "Kushina, you aren't scolding the Nine-Tails again, are you? It is, after all, the embodiment of misfortune and hatred. What if..."
Suddenly, a red tail shot out from behind Kushina and thrashed wildly through the air. Its tip pointed at Minato one moment, then toward Hokage Rock outside the next, looking extremely agitated.
Minato stared blankly at the tail for a long while before awkwardly asking, "Kushina, what is it saying?"
Translator Kushina wore a strange expression. "The Nine-Tails says it isn't some incarnation of hatred and misfortune. Humans were afraid of its power, so they forcibly saddled it with that label. Whenever it fought the other tailed beasts, it deliberately avoided places where humans gathered."
"It also says that the First Hokage and Uchiha Madara were the worst. It had been sleeping peacefully at home when one of them inexplicably dragged it out and beat it up, saying it was too dangerous. The other was even more disgusting. He put a layer of blue armor on it, then went to fight the First Hokage, which got it beaten up again, nice